1 Kings 12:5-7

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁵ Rehoboam said to them, “Leave me for three days and then return to me.” So the people left.

⁶ Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was alive. He asked, “What answer do you advise me to give to these people?”

⁷ They said to him, “If today you become a servant to this people—if you serve them and answer them with kind words—then they will be your servants for all time.”^[a]